Some people are asking why crews had to shuttle water to fight a fire Monday night at a home along the 3900 block of West ...

And after the fire on Maui in 2023, officials wrote that it was unclear if the hydrants ran dry because of demand or the loss of electricity. In large-scale fires, hydrant systems can quickly be ...

Three years ago, she had spent $1,350 on the personal hydrant system and an additional $1,136 for a plumber to install it on the recommendation of her local fire brigade, which had noted that her ...

Some fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades ran dry ... so that we can continue to have that water supply for the hydrant system," he said.

"The first companies got there and they had heavy fire coming out the first floor. When they stretched their hose, they had a frozen hydrant in front of the building, so they had to go up and find ...

“We pushed the system to the extreme. Four times the normal demand was seen for 15 hours straight, which lowered our water pressure.” On X, formerly Twitter, L.A. Fire Department Public ...

No air support meant immense pressure on the hydrant system - which simply was not designed for the volume of fire we're seeing in Los Angeles. San Francisco Fire Rescue Captain Justin Schorr ...

Leaders with Lindale Mall said the mall will not open till 2 p.m. on Tuesday after a fire hydrant froze near Red Lobster, causing the city to shut off the mall’s water. Crews with the city are ...

New Rabun County Assistant Fire Chief Dalton Freeman is working with the Rabun County Water and Sewer Authority (RCWSA) on developing a universal numbering system for identifying and logging in a s ...